Soccer World Cup 2010 / Nigeria

This article covers the Nigerian national soccer team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup .

qualification

The team qualified through the qualifying games of the African Football Association CAF for the World Cup in South Africa .

For the second qualifying round, Nigeria met the hosts and fixed qualifiers South Africa , Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea in Group 4 and reached the third qualifying round with six wins from as many games.

There the Nigerian national team played in Group 2 against Tunisia , Mozambique and Kenya and qualified as group winners again for the World Cup finals.

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Nigeria	11: 1	18th
2	South Africa	5: 5	7th
3	Sierra Leone	4: 8	7th
4th	Equatorial Guinea	4:10	3

June 1, 2008 : Nigeria 2-0 South Africa (2-0)

June 7, 2008 : Sierra Leone 0-1 Nigeria (0-0)

June 15, 2008 : Equatorial Guinea 0-1 Nigeria (0-1)

June 21, 2008 : Nigeria 2-0 Equatorial Guinea (1-0)

September 6, 2008 : South Africa - Nigeria 0: 1 (0: 0)

October 11, 2008 : Nigeria 4-1 Sierra Leone (3-1)

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Nigeria	9: 4	12
2	Tunisia	7: 4	11
3	Mozambique	3: 5	7th
4th	Kenya	5:11	3

March 29, 2009 : Mozambique 0-0 Nigeria

June 7, 2009 : Nigeria 3-0 Kenya (1-0)

June 20, 2009 : Tunisia 0-0 Nigeria

September 6, 2009 : Nigeria 2-2 Tunisia (1: 1)

October 11, 2009 : Nigeria 1-0 Mozambique (0-0)

November 14, 2009 : Kenya 2-3 Nigeria (0-1)

Nigerian contingent

National coach Lars Lagerbäck , who only took over the coaching post in February 2010, initially announced a 44-player list of potential World Cup participants who had been invited to a training camp in Great Britain. From this list Greg Etafia , Olubayo Adefemi , Michael Odibe , Sam Sodje , Femi Ajilore , Joseph Akpala , Michael Eneramo , Seyi Olofinjana , Onyekachi Okonkwo , Sone Aluko , Gabriel Reuben , Ahmed Musa , Solomon Okpako and Bartholomew Ibenegbu did not make it into the previous one , 30-player line-up. From this 30-strong squad, Lagerbäck finally deleted Bassey Akpan ( Bayelsa United ), Peter Suswam ( Lobi Stars ), Onyekachi Apam ( OGC Nice ), Ikechukwu Uche ( Real Saragossa ), Victor Anichebe ( FC Everton ), Ideye Brown ( FC Sochaux ) and Peter Utaka ( Odense BK ) to reach the FIFA squad size of 23 players. After the injury-related cancellation of John Obi Mikel ( Chelsea FC ), Ideye Brown was nominated.

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Vincent Enyeama	Hapoel Tel Aviv	08/29/1982	3	0	1	0	0
16	Austin Ejide	Hapoel Petach Tikwa	04/08/1984	0	0	0	0	0
23	Dele Aiyenugba	Bne Jehuda Tel Aviv	11/20/1983	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Joseph Yobo	Everton FC	09/06/1980	3	0	0	0	0
3	Taye Taiwo	Olympique Marseille	04/16/1985	2	0	0	0	0
5	Rabiu Afolabi	FC Red Bull Salzburg	04/18/1980	2	0	0	0	0
6th	Danny Shittu	Bolton Wanderers	09/02/1980	3	0	0	0	0
13	Ayila Yussuf	Dynamo Kiev	04/11/1984	1	0	1	0	0
17th	Chidi Odiah	CSKA Moscow	December 17, 1983	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Elderson Echiéjilé	Rennes stadium	01/20/1988	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	Dele Adeleye	Sparta Rotterdam	December 25, 1988	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
12	Kalu Uche	UD Almería	11/15/1982	3	2	0	0	0
14th	Sani Kaita	Alania Vladikavkaz	05/02/1986	2	0	0	0	1
15th	Lukman Haruna	AS Monaco	December 4th, 1990	2	0	1	0	0
20th	Dickson case	Fulham FC	06/08/1982	3	0	0	0	0
striker
4th	Nwankwo canoe	Portsmouth FC	08/01/1976	1	0	0	0	0
7th	John Utaka	Portsmouth FC	01/08/1982	0	0	0	0	0
8th	Yakubu Aiyegbeni	Everton FC	11/22/1982	3	1	0	0	0
9	Obafemi Martins	VfL Wolfsburg	10/28/1984	2	0	0	0	0
10	Ideye Brown	FC Sochaux	10/10/1988	0	0	0	0	0
11	Peter Odemwingie	Moscow locomotive	07/15/1981	2	0	0	0	0
18th	Victor Obinna	Málaga CF	03/25/1987	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Chinedu Obasi	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	06/01/1986	3	0	2	0	0
Trainer
	Lars Lagerbäck		07/16/1948

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Argentina	7: 1	9
2	South Korea	5: 6	4th
3	Greece	2: 5	3
4th	Nigeria	3: 5	1

In the preliminary round of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, the Nigerian national football team met in Group B on Argentina , South Korea and Greece . After two defeats and one draw, Nigeria was eliminated from the tournament as bottom of the group.

• Saturday June 12, 2010; 16:00 in Johannesburg (Ellis Park Stadium) Argentina - Nigeria 1: 0 (1: 0)
  

• Thursday June 17, 2010; 16:00 in Mangaung / Bloemfontein Greece - Nigeria 2: 1 (1: 1)
  

• Tuesday June 22, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Durban Nigeria - South Korea 2: 2 (1: 1)
  

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Squad Nigeria ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lagerback invites ancient & modern to World Cup camp. In: Vanguard. April 18, 2010, accessed February 24, 2016 . 
2. ↑ goal.com: World Cup 2010: Nigeria Squad - Coach Lars Lagerback Leaves Ike Uche And Victor Anichebe Out Of Final 23 (May 31, 2010)
3. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: New shock for Africa: Nigeria's Mikel fails (June 5, 2010) ( Memento of June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )